Contribution Module: Component Builder for Drupal 9/10

1. Overview

• Drupal is a wonderful platform to build from small websites to big and complex web applications. Views, blocks, regions, entities, and nodes are great concepts to help developers do anything they need.
• Yet, there are no easy approaches for the normal users to build a flexible layout on their website.
• This module is built to solve that weakness of Drupal.

2. General Information

• Compatible with Drupal 8, 9, and so on
• Allow to add any component to the content/entity page
• Allow to customize detail content by the components
• Portable component as the plugin to move, reuse anywhere
• Provide custom properties to support more styles
• Entity based, Plugin based, familiar for the Drupal developer
• Easy to hook, to preprocess, to customize the template and display

3. Video introduction

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LACFCOxkxA

4. Quick guide: how to use this module

• Install module by command line bellow (or in package area):
  • $ composer require 'drupal/inline_entity_form:^1.0@RC'
  • $ composer require 'drupal/entity:^1.3'
  • $ composer require 'drupal/component_builder'
• Enable module in Extends section and visit [your domain]/admin/structure/drupal-component/settings to activate some component types we want to use
• To use this function, you just need to add an entity reference field refer to Component Wrapper in Article content type (or any content type, entity). Note: using Inline entity form - Complex widget in manage form display, and using format Rendered entity format in Manage display
• That's all and now you can add content to see how it works

5. Detail guide: how to use this module for the new Drupallers

• Coming soon

6. Detail guide: how to create new Component Type for the Drupal Developers

• Coming soon